This is just more Euro-weenie whining. And Scowcroft, like so many in 41's administration, is far too concerned with states breaking apart. Remember 41's "Chicken Kiev" speech, which was interpreted by 8/91 Soviet coup plotters as a signal that the US would stand aside? That was Scowcroft's philosophy in action--a vicious totalitarian state that's intact is preferable to the possibility of a fractured formerly totalitarian state.